One thing that characterises iOS 14, Apple’s latest OS for the iPhone, more than anything else is that it enables you to accomplish your tasks more easily. It does this both by better organising apps and features, and displaying them in ways that better fit with how most of us use our phones.
So, we have redesigned Widgets, Smart Stacks and App Clips. This last one is particularly intriguing as it enables you to access some of the functionality of an app without installing it.
Incoming call notifications now only take up part of the screen, which means they no longer feel like such an intrusion if you’re working in another app when they come in.
Siri has gained more smarts and can now suggest apps when you first pick up your phone, and there are plenty of improvements to the Camera app, Maps, and, as you would expect, to privacy in Safari and elsewhere.
Which devices will work with iOS 14?
>Most times when a new version of iOS is released, there are casualties in terms of the devices that can run it. However, this time around, there are none. If your iPhone or iPod touch can run iOS 13, it will be able to run iOS 14. The full list of supported devices is below:
iPhone 11
iPhone 11 Pro
iPhone 11 Pro Max
iPhone XS
iPhone XS Max
iPhone XR
iPhone X
iPhone 8
iPhone 8 Plus
iPhone 7
iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 6s
iPhone 6s Plus
iPhone SE (1st generation)
iPhone SE (2nd generation)
iPod touch (7th generation)
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